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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Is Tanzania still safe to visit ?

By Marc Harris, Managing Director of Tanzania Odyssey – a long established Tanzania
specialist tour Operator

There
have been no cases of Ebola reported anywhere in East Africa and the epicentre
of the current outbreak is 5,500 km away from Tanzania.Indeed Liberia, Sierra
Leone and Guinea
are closer to Madrid, Paris
and London than they are to Tanzania in East Africa

As
one of the longest standing Tanzania Tour Operators in Tanzania we have built
excellent relationships with our partners on the ground in Tanzania as well as
being a member of ATTA (African Travel and Tourism Association) where we are
kept informed and up to date about any changes which we can inform and act
accordingly on our clients behalf.

We do not have a crystal ball and cannot predict
whether Ebola will reach East Africa.
However, we have considered the situation extremely carefully, and are
completely unconcerned. In our opinion the problem of Ebola in Tanzania
is simply that of perception and miscommunication

We have many thousands of tourists in Tanzania at any one time and we are delighted to
note that we have only received a handful of enquiries about Ebola – the
message from our side is that it business as usual in Tanzania